By Samir Amghar, Amel Boubekeur, Michael Emerson
This publication analyzes where of the recent Muslim minorities in society in the eu Union. The authors discover the basis explanations of emerging tensions and clash among the recent immigrant inhabitants and local Europeans over problems with Muslim identification, Islamist doctrines, and Islamophobia. in addition they offer integration types for many of the ecu international locations and speak about the fast- and long-range difficulties because of socioeconomic discrimination opposed to Muslims. members contain Imane Karich (International drawback crew, Brussels), Isabelle Rigoni (Paris VIII University), Sara Silvestri (Cambridge collage and town collage, London), Valeria Amiraux (European collage Institute, Florence), Chris Allen (University of Birmingham, UK), Tufyal Choudhury (Durham college, UK), and Bernard Godard (Ministry of inside, Paris).
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Taking its inspiration from the UIOE, the MG developed a discourse on the necessity for the Muslim populations of integrating into European society. Their means of action for enlarging their influence in Europe, previously only oriented towards political militancy, were also modernised. In fact, the MG now possesses Islamic banks, clothing brands, radio stations and magazines throughout Europe. In order to demonstrate their openness, the head of the Dutch branch of the MG even went so far as to the lengths of organise a football game between young militants and members of the gay community, which provoked strong opposition within the traditionalist Turkish community.
And even in Australia where the son of the movement’s founder, Abderrahman Al Habachi, supervises the activities. They have several centres in the US, notably in Philadelphia, as well as in Ukraine where they have a large mosque in Kiev. In France, where the association emerged in 1991, several public figures belong, or have belonged, to the movement, such as the rapper Kéry James (whose last two albums sold over 150,000 copies) or Abd Samad Moussaoui (the brother of Zacarias, one of the presumed authors of the September 11 attacks in 2001).
He was called on to teach the science of the hadith at the University of Medina, when it was built in 1962. This university educated foreign students, many of them beneficiaries of scholarships from the Saudi government. Two years after he began this post, his contract was 16 44 | AMGHAR Fawzan,18 Al-Madkhali19 and the Great Mufti of the Saudi Kingdom, AlCheikh, and the Yemenite Muqbil20 (who also died in 2001) have been the contemporary representatives of this movement. Predicative Salafis oppose all forms of political participation for Muslim populations within European society, with the motive that such participation would be contrary to Islam.
